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St. Monica's Catholic Church in Phoenix later became St. Pius X Church, which was only sporadically active as a place of worship by the 21st century. It was reactivated as a Black Catholic parish, St. Josephine Bakhita Mission, in 2022. [8] [9]
It depicts formerly enslaved Afro-Italian nun and saint Josephine Bakhita opening a trapdoor as she frees figures that represent human-trafficking victims. The sculpture contains almost a hundred figures representing the different faces of human trafficking including sex exploitation, forced labor, debt bondage and more.
Josephine Margaret Bakhita, FDCC (Arabic: جوزفين بخيتة; c. 1869 – 8 February 1947) was a Sudanese Catholic religious sister who joined the Canossians after winning her freedom from slavery. She served in Italy for 50 years until her death in 1947.
Bakhita became babysitter to Mimmina Michieli, whom she accompanied to Venice's Institute of the Catechumens, run by the Canossian Sisters. While Mimmina was being instructed, Josephine felt drawn to the Catholic Church. She was baptized and confirmed in 1890, taking the name Josephine.
The Diocese of Balanga is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the Philippines, established on March 17, 1975, by Pope Paul VI.The diocese has jurisdiction over the whole province of Bataan, with 38 parishes, 5 diocesan shrines, one minor basilica, chaplaincy, quasi-parish, national shrine and chapel, and 4 vicariates.
Located in: St. Mary Parish, Blenheim. St. Edward the Confessor Church Point Edward: Church closed on April 6, 2004. [22] Located in Our Lady of Mercy Parish, Sarnia. St. Joseph Church Port Burwell: Church closed on June 23, 2003. [22] Located in Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, Aylmer, Sacred Heart Parish, Langton and St. Mary Parish, Tillsonburg.
from parts of St. Martin Parish and St. Mary Parish. Named by Spanish settlers in honor of the Iberian Peninsula: 67,659: 1,031 sq mi (2,670 km 2) Iberville Parish: 047: Plaquemine: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. Explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, the brother of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville: 29,617: 653 sq mi (1,691 km 2 ...
The school is named after Josephine Bakhita, the first Sudanese to be declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. [9] As of 2002 St. Bakhita's, run by the Sisters of Mary Mother of the Church of the Torit Catholic diocese, was the only girls' boarding school in southern Sudan, with 600 primary school students and 33 secondary students.